E40- Monika Gross and Child Welfare in Nebraska
Trying to understand the relationship between the state, agencies, children and their families feels impossible. That’s why we brought in Nebraska native, UNL graduate, and the executive director of the Foster Care Review Board, Monika Gross. She walks us through the timeline of when Nebraska outsourced case management to agencies in 2009, through our current crisis of financial mismanagement at the current Kansas based vendor, St Francis Ministries.
Get involved to help Nebraska’s most vulnerable children:
Be on a review board: https://fcro.nebraska.gov
Be a child advocate in court: https://www.nebraskacasa.org/volunteer/volunteer.html
Be a foster parent: http://dhhs.ne.gov/Pages/Foster-Care.aspx
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